An Important Reminder: You are a Miracle

Yesterday as I sat with a friend, I listened as she felt guilt and sadness over her past.  Then, her thoughts pointed to the future and she felt a sense of fear and worry.

She talked of how hard it has been for her to simply open to the joys of life--taking in a sunset, feeling the water rush over her body as she took a shower, smiling at the antics of a puppy, feeling the delight of the food at each meal.  Her mental patterns were strong, keeping her from simply cherishing the gift of Now.

She described a desire to open to Joy.  Yet, opening to this felt foreign to her.  She felt unworthy of experiencing peace and joy in the moment.

As she sat, I looked at her.  I saw in front of me a Miracle.  She is a miracle of existence.  The breath of Life was flowing through her with no thought on her part.  The trillions of cells that she is made of are working together, allowing her the gift of health.   The kindness and warmth of her precious Being caused me a sense of awe.  There was so much love in her heart and she is so kind to others.  If only she could begin to open to the enormous miracle of her Being.

How would life feel to each of us if we experienced the remarkable nature of our Being?

What if we each took some time today to take contemplate the gift of Life?

What if we began to cherish these bodies that house our spirits on this Earth journey?

What if we relaxed into each moment rather than getting caught up in worn-out, chaotic mental patterns like self-judgment, guilt over the past, comparison games, worry over finance and fretting over image?

Friend, you are nothing less than a miracle, and so am I.

Open to the gift of existence.  Allow the love that you are to shine forth fully--No Fear.  No Worry.  No comparison with others.  Be FULLY the miracle you are designed to be.

(Feel free to contact me for coaching if you are stuck in low self-esteem or can't find a way past the inner chaos that fear and guilt bring.)

With my love,
Patricia Omoqui, The Thought Dr.
www.patriciaomoqui.com  

Facing the Jellyfish -- Maybe It's Time to Face the Fear & Move Into the Ocean of Your Dreams!

Not long ago we vacationed as a family to a beach area.  One of my daughters absolutely adores the ocean.  Jumping waves, building sandcastles, feeling the water on her skin--these things are always an exhilarating experience for her.

So when I saw her sitting near the water's edge with her head down, I knew something wasn't quite right.

I sat down beside her and asked what was happening.

"Mom, there are jellyfish everywhere.  I'm scared.  People are getting stung."  She was truly afraid.

I encouraged her, "Have any of the people that have been stung been taken away in an ambulance or been hurt badly by the jellyfish?"

"No, Mom.  But, I'm scared of what it will feel like if I get stung...I just can't go in," she said.

"Dear, just take your time.  I think your love of the ocean is bigger than these jellyfish."

I left her contemplating the jellyfish troubles and went back up to sit in the small tent we had set up for shade.

About five minutes later she approached the tent with a bucket in hand and a grin on her face.

"Mom, look what I have."

I got up and went over.  When I peeked into the bucket I couldn't see anything except for water.

"The jellyfish is in there Mom.  It's clear.  Can't you see it?  I captured one so I could see it closely and know what it really is."

When I looked more closely I noticed the subtle shape of a small jellyfish moving in the water.

"Mom, I'm going to take the jellyfish and have it sting me right here and right now!"

"Are you sure you want to do that, honey?" I responded.

"Mom, I want to go back in the water.  I'd rather just get this sting over with so I know what it feels like.  Then, I won't be afraid anymore," she said with a new found boldness.

After some contemplation she decided not to inflict a sting upon herself.  Instead, this 11 year old ventured into the water and decided to just have some fun.

About ten minutes later she ventured back up to the tent and said, "Mom, a jellyfish stung me--and guess what!  It really didn't hurt that much!"

She had gone to jump waves and as nature took its course, a jellyfish had found her.  The sting on her leg wasn't as bad as she thought it would be.

She had overcome her fear!  Wave jumping ensued for the rest of the week.

I sat in awe, and have continued to sit in awe and contemplate the situation.  My little lady knew she needed to face her fears head on.  She found a truly unique way to approach it.  And, she taught me once again, to not allow my fears to prohibit me from doing the things that will bring me a sense of passion and excitement.

As we venture into the weekend, perhaps each of us can take some time to contemplate our "Jellyfish".  What is it that you are afraid of that you are allowing to keep you from moving forward to do the things you truly desire?

What unique way might you find to sit with those fears, understand them and move beyond them?

If you open to Divine  Guidance and ask for courage and boldness, remarkable experiences may begin to unfold in your life.  You will be guided BEYOND your fears.

I remember one of my favorite verses from the Bible as a child:  God has not given us a spirit of FEAR but of POWER, LOVE and a Sound Mind.  

Our fears are simply thoughts of things we do NOT want to happen.  

Our dreams are thoughts of things we DO want to happen.  

The question is, which of those thoughts will we dwell upon?  

And, can we trust that there is a Divine Force in play that will allow us to navigate any challenge that might arise as we move toward the life we are designed to live?

Each of us has the power to overcome any fear and move forward into the ocean of our dreams.

Please comment and share any unique stories you may have about overcoming your fears...or feel free to share your thoughts of self-awareness of what you are allowing to hold yourself back from what you desire.

We are all in this together.  And, we as we share from our hearts, we begin to realize we aren't alone--each person on this planet has their own set of "jellyfish" to move beyond ;)

With my love and my encouragement to MOVE BEYOND YOUR JELLYFISH!

Patricia Omoqui, The Thought Dr.
www.patriciaomoqui.com

What IF Everything is Truly On Schedule?

Had to share again today.  I guess once I finally opened my writing gates again, the flow of inspiration was ready to rush through.

Perhaps you can relate to the feeling of:  "I'm trying so hard to actualize my dreams, to achieve this next phase of success and impact but it just isn't materializing like it is supposed to!"  

We've been taught to constantly judge ourselves and our lives.  We have been taught that if we put a plan in place and it doesn't all happen in the way we want nor on the time frame we had established, then something is terribly wrong.  Even worse, we personalize this and may begin to think:  Something is wrong with ME.

Today I share some thoughts in hopes that our perspectives may be stretched a bit.  

Here it goes:

There is an adjustment period now--an in-between space between where you had been and where you will eventually be with your manifestations.  Be joyful for this time!  It is a time of gradual preparation.  It takes time to allow new beliefs, fresh ideas and seeds of potential to take root and begin to grow.

What's the rush anyhow??  

Impatience is merely another form of fear.  Impatience is a type of judgment that says, "My path isn't unfolding fast enough for my liking so there must be something wrong!"

What if there is a Higher Plan at work here?  What if there is perfection in this moment?  What if every stage on life's journey is filled with incredible depth and beauty?  What if the Divine plan is impeccably designed for the highest good of you AND the entire planet?  

Remember:  

You would never want a baby to be born pre-mature.

You wouldn't want to eat a half-baked cake or sit down to a half-cooked meal.

You wouldn't want to go out onto a big stage only to be half-prepared.

Perhaps the opportunity each of us has today is to RELAX AND TRUST.  What if we could OPEN to the current circumstances with curiosity rather than judgment?  What if we were simply willing to LIVE FULLY IN TODAY NO MATTER HOW THINGS APPEAR -- looking for the good and trusting the path?

Imagine knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that your life is truly on schedule.  Imagine interpreting every situation--no matter how good or bad it appears to the World around you as the EXACT set of circumstances here to prepare and mold and grow you so that you can most fully serve the unique purpose for which you are here on the planet?

Breathe. Yep, take a really deep breath today.  In fact, celebrate--even laugh a bit--be glad if it all looks messy.  Be thankful if it is all falling apart around you.  Sometimes the breaking down and tearing apart is what we need so that we can be reconfigured into the proper configuration for our purpose.

And, the best part of it all--even in the stage you are in you can be living and experiencing and serving your purpose (see my last blog post).

Consider these guiding thoughts for today:  It is more well with me than I realize.  My life is on schedule.  I open to the learning here for me today.

With all my love...and with humility as we journey together, 

Patricia Omoqui, The Thought Dr.

www.patriciaomoqui.com 

Potential & Purpose are NOW Events....Not Future...Not Distant!

It's been a long while since I shared a blog.  My sense is I experienced some "writer's fatigue" and needed to retreat for a time.  During this blog vacation, I've received tremendous insights and God has been deepening me, working on transforming my thoughts and helping me to become a more peaceful version of myself.

Each morning I sit with my journal and ask for Divine insights.  I was compelled to share with you the words that flowed to me via this post.

Below is the direct message that came to and through me this morning.



Why would the circumstances and outer packaging of our lives be all that important if we are living our deeper purpose in the here and now?

Our purpose isn't about the outer packaging.  It is about the heart.  It is about being a unique expression of God's love.  When we connect to this deeper calling on our lives, God uses our potential--and can maximize it fully in the here and now.

The trap we too often fall into is to judge that "our potential is in the future" because it has not configured in the spectacular dreams and visions we desire.

What if living potential is a PRESENT MOMENT choice.  Our potential can be most fully activitated when we release our focus on the external, on the future and we more fully open to where we are right now.  God's love flows within us NOW.  God's power to touch the world through us is available RIGHT NOW.  The outer circumstances we are currently experiencing are a perfect design for how God can use us as agents of light, compassion, hope and grace RIGHT NOW.

Affirmations:

My potential is now.

My life is now.

My ability to share God's love is now.

My unique purpose is now.

God's love flows in and through me now.

I trust the divine plan on my life.

As we relax into living our potential now, the future pieces of life and the specially designed journey God has for us can't help but manifest in the highest form God has for us.

This common mental trap we fall into is called:  Postponed Purpose Syndrome:  Thinking that my purpose and potential are somewhere in the future.  Therefore, I postpone my action or feel my potential is limited or can't be fully activated until my outer circumstances change.

Consider the below questions.  I'd suggest you write the questions down on a piece of paper and then say a prayer.  Ask for God to speak to you in this moment and give you guidance, awareness and illumination for your path.  Say a prayer.  Quiet your thinking mind.  Then, write down the answers that flow to you:

How can I begin to open, relax and allow the fullness of God's love to activate the grid of my NOW Potential TODAY?

How can I  begin to joyfully serve where I am, with my current resources, to the people put on my path today?

How would my life feel if I chose to take this approach?

Friends, our egos wants us to believe that we are living for some future desired state--mostly to do with wealth, titles and grandeur.  Yet, the truth is:  All that we truly have is the present moment. When we open to the here and now, the Divine Grace all around us begins to glow.  We begin to see our lives from a totally difference perspective.

My current life circumstances don't match the ideal dreams and visions I have.  But, they are exactly the circumstances needed for my highest good and for God to use my life now.

What if we all chose to live our purpose in the moment?

I sense some incredible, miraculous waves of love would sweep across this planet today.

With all my love, 

Patricia Omoqui, The Thought Dr.

www.patriciaomoqui.com 

(P.S. - going to be moving my blog over to my website soon.  And, yes, I am going to start sharing regularly again.)

A Call to Shine Our Light...Yes, as many of the 7 Billion of us as Possible!

Clearly, we can see the World is hurting all around us.  Yes, pain in Paris...slaughter of lives in Syria, Nigeria, Palestine, Iraq...even here locally in a town near where I live another gun death happened to someone close to my friend just a few days ago.

Where is there hurt?  Everywhere...everywhere...everywhere....

This blog is a call to Shine your beautiful light.  Yes, let that spark of love in your heart that yearns to express come forth here and now!  

Each of us has the capacity to be compassionate, thoughtful, and find opportunities to lift another being with our love.  It doesn't take a major act...just small, considerate acts...one after another in community after community...to activate and encourage love and light to come forth around the world.

Recently I was guided to share some of my resources with a friend who was struggling.  I slipped a small gift into her purse without her knowing it.  That token of love allowed her to then get to an event that was important to her.  And, on her way, she ran into people at a gas station and shared an uplifting conversation with humor and smiles.  She went on to the event and shared even more of her heart with those she encountered.  From taking that small bit of action on my intuition, her light, activated other lights.

Light and love can spread, can multiply--it can grow exponentially!  

What small act of kindness do you know you are ready to follow through on?

Who is that person that keeps coming to your mind that you know you need to reach out to?

What positive word can you offer the stranger in your path?

What friend needs a listening ear?

What things do you have that aren't getting used that another person nearby may need and enjoy?

In an age where the media amplifies our focus on the atrocities that occur, we have a choice!  Will we discuss those stories in fear and get depressed, worried, even terrified?  Or, will we decide that as Earth Angels, full of goodness, we will step up our call to love on a whole new level?

May God guide and direct your steps this week as you open your heart, share your light and offer the World acts of goodness.

Together, we 7 billion can do brilliant things--we are far more powerful collectively than we yet realize.

With my heartfelt care for you, 

Patricia Omoqui, The Thought Dr.

P.S. - I'm here if you need some coaching...just reach out anytime.

Why not try RELAXING...

What if we spent a little less time worrying and working ourselves to the bone and a bit more time, relaxing, unwinding and resting in God each day?

Having a sweet 1 year old baby girl named Sage gives me the perfect visual of this.  She is by nature a very snugly baby.  She loves to be held and sit close to her father, sisters and me.  In those special moments, it is as if she melts into me, her head against my shoulder, her heart against my heart—it is as if our hearts are beating as one and our energies are joined together.

She is comfortable, relaxed to the point of falling asleep.  Her sweet coos and sighs and breaths show how relaxed she is in that moment.  She is not struggling to be anywhere else but where she is.  She is content to simply be in the comfort of loving arms.

In the past few weeks as I was preparing to speak to a group here locally in Pennsylvania.  I was guided to share on the topic of Relaxing into God.  I came across a text where a devoted South African nun, Francis Banks, described that she can now see that it was the tenseness of her striving that was actually keeping her from experiencing the presence of Spirit in her life.  That Presence had always surrounded her—but she hadn't recognized it because of the level of stress she put herself under.  She had been living with the idea that she had to constantly DO something to experience God. 

As she looks back on her life, she recounts:

“I was lost in illusion; lost in glamour.  I looked for the Spirit to reveal itself to me, when all that was necessary was ‘relaxation unto God.’ The Spirit was always with me, veiled because my physical sight could not view it.  The great secret of finding that Spirit was ‘letting go’ of self. . . I am realizing that the very tenseness of my striving was my undoing and it barred the way to that very union which my soul longed. . . Light, Divinity, Reality. . . all-pervading consciousness…was there for my acceptance.  Much greater progress would have been made by ‘letting go’ of all these human images and by allowing the spirit to absorb me.  Relax and allow the Spirit to stream through you.  Swim with the tide of the Spirit.” (from Testimony of Light)

This description resonated deeply with me.  For many years I lived from a state of being ultra-responsible, working myself to the bone, achieving the highest accolades possible and driving my body to the point of exhaustion.  Yes, I was a Christian and I loved God deeply.  But there was something I hadn’t known about a spiritual practice – a simple call in the Bible to “Be still and know that I am God.” And, “In God we live and breathe and have our being.”

It’s only been the past 10 years where I have begun to sit in silence and listen.  I’ve learned to quiet the restless mind.  I’ve woken up to the beauty of just BEING in the moment.  I’ve started to experience and understand that the quiet, silent practice of breathing and allowing the whispers of Spirit to refresh my spirit.  This new way of sitting and being is profound:  it has changed me, transformed my thinking and allowed me to deepen my faith and refresh myself.  I am learning more and more each day to RELAX INTO GOD.

My spirit longs for more of this relaxing…and the funny thing is that by taking the time to relax into God, I get the breakthrough ideas, the insights, the a-ha moments needed to fulfill my purpose in new ways.  It is the stepping back to rest that ends up speeding me forward!

What if life is easier than we typically make it on ourselves?

What if melting into the arms of our Heavenly Father can restore us and renew us in a way that allows more energy to flow through us to fuel our purpose?

What if the times of sitting silently in the Presence can lift us to new wisdom, fresh insights and a further discovery and expression of our gifts?

Our cultural promotes constant Doing as a symbol of importance.  It’s easy to buy into this mentality.  But we can see all around us and in our own lives how the constant DOING causes stress, physical disease and an erosion of our relationships.

Perhaps our opportunity now lies in beginning to experience, practice and gain expertise in BEING and RELAXING.

Why not this week plan some time into your schedule to BE, to RELAX yourself into God?    Even 5 minutes of deep breathing in the Presence each day may begin to renew you in a way you haven’t felt for many years.

May your week be full of new light, energy and an exuberance for your purpose!

I’m here if needed – just drop an email to patricia@patriciaomoqui.com .

With my deepest love,

Patricia Omoqui, The Thought Dr.
www.patriciaomoqui.com

My Worst Birthday Ever - You Won't Believe What Really Happened

Birthdays are usually full of excitement and celebration.  That wasn't how my 17th birthday was.  In fact, a better way to describe that particular day is deeply traumatic.

The birthday started as a happy day.  I had friends and some family members wish me Happy Birthday.  I had a nice dinner, a cake with candles and even received gifts.

Late in the day, however, I received a phone call from a person in my life, someone from my family of origin.  Normally a person this close and of this position in one's life is meant to offer good wishes and love.  Usually this type of family member wants the best for your life and would do anything to protect you and help you. 

What I received instead was a death threat.  I was told clearly:  I will kill you.  I will come and shoot you if you do something that displeases me.   And, I will hurt some of the people close to you  as well.

Devastated teenage girl.  Heart shattered in a million pieces.  It was bad enough this person had chosen to opt out of my life a few years earlier.  These threats took the pain to an entirely different level.  And, because of the person's mental instability, the threats had to be taken seriously.  From that moment moving forward, the fear of this person following through on what he said was something that haunted my days and nights.

I turned to God, my Heavenly Father, during the years that followed.  I had surrendered and give my entire Being over to God as a child. And, I found comfort and solace in knowing that I was watched over, guided and protected by God's power and grace.

I spent time over the next ten years journaling, seeking counsel and comfort from the role models in my life.  I opened my heart to healing these deep wounds.  With time, I grew stronger from the difficulties and I knew that everything happened for my highest good --yes, even a death threat.

I felt I had healed most, if not all, from that time period in my life.  Until recently that is.

A few weeks ago I realized that I was holding back on part of my calling back because I was afraid that this person might still show up at a public event and harm me.  I didn't even realize that this underlying fear was still in operation in my subconscious.  But, once again, God's goodness brought me to the awareness of another layer of healing needed in order to more fully experience and live the calling for which I am made.

I've spent time the past few weeks recalling those days as a teen.  I've journaled and sketched my feelings.  I've found ways to face the fear.  I know more deeply than ever that I am protected--I live and breathe and have my being in the Atmospheric Presence of God's Grace, Love, Kindness and Protection.  My life is in the All-powerful hands of God.

Why do I share something so intimate with each of you?  Because on my 42nd birthday I want you to know that no matter what you've been through or what you are currently going through, there is purpose in it.  You can find healing.  You can find freedom.  You can find the gems of wisdom in each traumatic experience you've encountered on your journey. 

As I look back I see, that a tremendous resilience and strength was developed in me because of the difficulty I experienced.  And, the level of compassion and empathy that I now have to offer people is due to the depth of pain I was immersed in for much of my childhood and teen years.

I am thankful, deeply grateful, for the richenss of these trials.  I am who I am because of all that I've experienced. 

As I enter my 42nd year of life, my prayer is that God will continue to use me to love, to serve, to aid and help people in reaching their full potential in life. 

What is it deep within you that is ready to come up for healing?  Open to it.  Seek support from those you can trust -- and from those who have the expertise to help you move through the pain to greater freedom and clarity.  You are an amazingly valuable person.  You are more resilient than you know.  You are being guided, helped and supported to break through to new levels of spiritual depth and wisdom.

May God encourage, uplift and heal your spirit today and always,

With love,
Patricia Omoqui, The Thought Dr.